Headlines for 5 September 2001
Loyalists protesting Catholic school replace rocks with bomb, wounding policemen.
More rioting expected in Belfast after Protestant boy killed while cycling.
The Durban race conference is not going smoothly: an overview.
Bush doesn’t commit — as Republicans want — to vetoing spending bills that will spend next year’s Social Security surplus.
China will allow News Corp. and AOL television access to its population in return for broadcasting a Chinese government-sponsored channel in the US.
Michael Chabon and Rick Moody sound out about the Bulgari-sponsored novel.
A 1994 interview with Pauline Kael.
Pigeon racer to sue cellular companies for scaring off birds.
True is True updates to include poetry.
The map that first named America has made its way to the Library of Congress.
The White House Web site gets re-designed, now including the first lady’s diary!
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Salt
More colorful brilliance from the hulls of Toronto’s salt-encrusted sugar fleet. A photo gallery from Marshall Sokoloff, and a contest sponsored by Jewelboxing that could win you a framed large-format print from the series.
Brian Taylor
The five questions with designer and movie-maker Brian Taylor.
Rules of the New Restroom
We’ve all seen the ‘Employees Must Wash Hands’ and ‘No Smoking’ signs in bathrooms. But what about other common sense rules? How are we to know what’s permissable, and what’s just plain wrong? The Editors offer some suggestions.
Birnbaum v. Brian Greene
Living in three dimensions can be hard enough, but ten? More than ten? Robert Birnbaum engages physicist and author Brian Greene in a fascinating conversation about string theory, science writing, and the type of nightmares that haunt contemporary physicists.

